Puerperal Fever

Betascript Publishing
(18-01-2011
)

éligible au bon d'achat

ISBN-13:

978-613-4-81112-5

ISBN-10:

6134811122

EAN:

9786134811125

Langue du livre:

Anglais

texte du rabat:

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Puerperal fever (from the Latin puer, male child (boy)), also called childbed fever, can develop into puerperal sepsis, which is a serious form of septicaemia contracted by a woman during or shortly after childbirth, miscarriage or abortion. If untreated, it is life-threatening. The most common infection causing puerperal fever is genital tract sepsis. Other types of infection that can lead to sepsis after childbirth include urinary tract infection, breast infection (mastitis) and respiratory tract infection (more common after anaesthesia due to lesions in the windpipe). A famous victim of puerperal fever was Elizabeth of York, the mother of Henry VIII of England. She died one week after giving birth to a daughter. Other significant victims were Isabella Beeton and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), author of Vindication of the Rights of Woman, who died ten days after giving birth to William Godwin's daughter, who grew up to be Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.